Carystus was Here before the troops were landed the entire population abandoned the city and took refute in the citadel. Then thev sent envovs to maze terms with the tcoman general. 1 ne townsmen were at once granted life and liberty;the Macedonians were allowed to depart after giving up their arms and paying a sum equivalent to 3oo drachmae per man. After ransoming themselves at this sum they departed for Boeot运. After thus, within a few days, capturing two important cities in Euboea, the, fleets rounded Sunium, a promontory in Attica, and brought up at Cenchreae, the commercial port of Corinth. Roman t路 Thessaly and Phocis.--Meanwhile the consul had on his hands a siege州ch proved一。be more tedious and costly than any one anticipated, and the defence was conducted in a way h e was quite unprepared for. He took it for granted that all his efforts would be devoted to the demolition of the walls and when once he had opened the way into the city the flight and slaughter of the enemy would follow as they usually do when cities are taken by assa But after a portion of the wall had been battered down .blt V.0 rams and the soldiers began to march over the debris in city they found themselves at the beginning of a fresh The Macedonian garrison, a large body of picked men sidered it a special distin币on to defend the city by their and couraee rather than by walls.and thev formed in order. their front restinLy on a column of unusual depth. As 11 V 1 soon as they saw the Romans clambering over e ruins of the wall they drove them back over gro and covered初th obstacles and ill-adapted for retirement. The consul was intensely mortified, for he looked upon this humiliating repulse as not only helping to prolong the siege of one solitary city, but also as likely to influence the future course of the war which.in his opinion.depended to a great 了‘，t气.J extent upon unimportant incidents. After clearing the ground where the shattered wall in heaps he brought up a movable, tower of immense carrying a large number of men on its numerous stages, and sent on cohort after cohort to break through, if ble, the massed body -of Macedonians, which they call the p nx. But in the narrow space--for the breach in the wall was by no means a wide one---the kind of weapon he used and his style of fighting gave the enemy二advantage. When the serried Macedonian ranks presented their enormously lone spears it was like a shield-wall. and when the Romans atter trnutlessly hurling.their javelins.drew their swords thev could not get to close quarters, nor could they hack off the spear-heads;if they did succeed in cutting or breaking any off. the splintered shafts kept their ulaces amonLrst the points of 产二‘二.J孟 the uninjured ones and the palisade remained unbroken. Another thing which helped the enemy was the protection of their flanks by that part of -the· wall which was sound;they had riot to attack or retire over a wide stretch of ground, w址ch generally disorders the ranks. An accident which happened to the tower gave them still greater confidence. As it was being moved over ground not thoroughly beaten down, one of the wheels sank in and gave the tower such a list that it seemed to the enemy to be falling over.